Format:
xix, 235 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781350067141
Content:
This vibrant history of the former German Democratic Republic's public art reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. Picturing Socialism shows how works of art and design in the urban spaces of East Germany were the site of a sustained struggle between practitioners, critics and political leaders. This was not the oft-assumed conflict between artistic freedom and political dogma; at stake was the self-identity of the republic as socialist. Art and its relationship to architecture functioned as the testing ground for East Germany's relationship to socialist realism and modernism against the backdrop of Cold War competition from the neighbouring Federal Republic. Picturing Socialism makes a timely contribution to the recent groundswell of interest in the legacy of East Germany's art and architecture, illuminating and elucidating the public art which has been lost or remains under threat since unification in 1990.
Content:
"This history of the former German Democratic Republic's public murals reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. This book traces the formal, functional and theoretical changes of the visual arts in the GDR's urban spaces. It shows how art, craft, design and architecture made up the terrain of a sustained struggle between practitioners and political leaders"--
Note:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.) – Royal College of Art, 2014, under the title: Visual arts in the urban environment in the German Democratic Republic
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Literatur- und Quellenverzeichnis: Seite 207-209
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350067158
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350067165
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Jenkins, Jessica R. Picturing socialism London : Bloomsbury, 2020 ISBN 9781350067172
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350067165
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350067141
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350067148
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350067158
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Kunst am Bau
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Sozialistischer Realismus
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Öffentlicher Raum
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Geschichte 1945-1990
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